[Python-Dev] PEP 3102: Keyword-only arguments (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas at python.org
Sun Apr 30 10:59:47 CEST 2006

On 4/30/06, Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/29/06, Talin <talin at acm.org> wrote: > This PEP proposes a change to the way that function arguments are > assigned to named parameter slots. In particular, it enables the > declaration of "keyword-only" arguments: arguments that can only > be supplied by keyword and which will never be automatically > filled in by a positional argument. +1. And I suggest this be re-targeted for Python 2.6. Now all we need is someone to implement this. ;-)

Pfft, implementation is easy. I have the impression Talin wants to implement it himself, but even if he doesn't, I'm sure I'll have a free week somewhere in the next year and a half in which I can implement it :) It's not that hard a problem, it just requires a lot of reading of the AST and function-call code (if you haven't read it already.)

-- Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org>

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